Facing a swath of scandals involving lay founders and other individuals who have committed abuse under the guise of false ...

ROME (CNS) — “We don’t have another theologian, it seems to me, that has been as engaged with modernity as Benedict,” said ...

After the funeral of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, the pope asked that the protocols for papal funerals be revised to evoke ...

According to Fox News, this new edition replaces the previous version approved in 1998 by Saint John Paul II. The Vatican ...

"The challenges, problems and hopes that pertain to marriage and the family today are inscribed in the relationship between ...

The Vatican had to work out a funeral for a retired pope, and a few months later Francis revealed he was working with the ...

Pope Francis has approved new rites for his own funeral for when he dies to simplify rituals and be buried outside the ...

Cardinal Miguel Ayuso Guixot, a leading Vatican expert on Islam, died on Monday (Nov. 25) at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, ...

A respected expert in Islam, the Spanish prelate devoted much of his career to promoting dialogue with the Muslim religion and played a key role in the “Document on Human Fraternity.” ...

Pope Francis denounces the hypocrisy of some countries “where there is much talk of peace” but “the highest yielding ...

Pope Francis has revised the papal funeral rites, simplifying the rituals to reflect his role as a mere bishop. The changes ...

Pope Francis announced this week that he intends on having a much more simple funeral than those of his predecessors at the ...